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July 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 123 – Ali Harper

Welcome to episode 123 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. Ali Harper is someone I met for the first time earlier this year. I told her I wanted to podcast her – because I knew her work. I had heard some of her albums, seen her on the TV […]

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May 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Whitney, Can I Be Me: Film

Whitney, Can I Be Me Director: Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal Lafayette Films/Passion Pictures/Showtime Networks A subtly powerful documentary that gets its strength and credibility through the use of footage from a never-before-seen fly-on-the-wall 1999 tour doco (that’s Dolezal’s footage, hence the co-directing credit), it seems important to get out of the way, right away, […]

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March 16, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

WWE Best Pay-Per-View Matches 2015: DVD

Best Pay-Per-View Matches 2015 WWE Madman A perfect thing for the lapsed fan like myself, here’s a three-disc-set highlighting the very best matches from the year’s pay-per-view events on the WWE calendar. There are match introductions, but really it’s about the bouts – so it’s into it with the very first “Match of the Year” […]

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November 16, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

WWE Summer Slam 2015: DVD

Summer Slam 2015 WWE Shock We’re told in the intro that 28 years ago the Summer Slam tradition started. Well, I was there for that first one – at least there in the sense of a viewer. It was an important part of my wrestling fandom, one of the early pieces of the puzzle. Here […]